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Paperback. Condition: Good. 448 pages. Text ligthly tanned.This anthology is in many ways a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty -four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, t o read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stori es of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover , it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to li ke Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it bett er if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I lik e things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.'.…